Speaker 2
it's really it's just very well done And I can't recommend it enough for anyone who's listening, you know My consciousness if you parked up when you gave that wonderful speech The BET awards and I know that I know that for so many people that's sort of like the defining moment of view and In listening to a podcast you did the accidental activist I found it so interesting when you kind of admitted that was not Is defining of a moment for you as it was for almost everyone who had consumed it It was in a season where I had more a series of years where I had been
Speaker 1
Saying many of the same things on news on CNN and MSNBC and then alive and Ferguson and things like that So I was just being consistent and being myself I think in the same way spontaneity and freshness again kind of like A theater or other elements of like when you have to perform if you get ahead of yourself Then by definition you're not being present and I'm really glad that I was just present And this was something that I noticed Often when I was when I'd be young the news and I'd be talking speaking truth to power online And I used to use Twitter a lot back then and talk a lot of shit on that too And I said people were surprised that I wasn't scared Yeah, I have some kind of repercussion of some kind and I just like I don't I'm scared of who some TV station like I think that's probably why it made such a mark for folks Is that because I was the you know nobody was doing that it was also just the posture I think that just through oh we don't do that here we play nice And this is a fucking emergency Where is playing nice got you You know so I think all of that kind of Colored and continues to color that kind of What's become a bit of a mark in history?